Lindsay Mitchell

The welfare state is unsustainable economically, socially and morally.

Friday, November 23, 2007

Move on Trotter

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Chris Trotter is blind. Or blinded by his love affair with Marxism. Many New Zealanders hail in the first, second or third generation from p...
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Thursday, November 22, 2007

Bias?

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I noted the judge who sentenced the father who smacked his child said, "While you may have gotten away with this in the past, it is a ...
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Priorities

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What do we have on the front page of the Dominion Post today? A report about Sigourney Weaver filming in Wellington wondering why so many me...
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Please Protest Today

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The DomPost editorial says it all; The purpose of the electoral finance and parliamentary funding bills is not to improve the law, but to g...
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007

White Ribbon Day

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I wonder if this guy will be wearing a white ribbon tomorrow?
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"Adoption urged"

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Adoption push urged for teen mothers 20/11/2007 4:32:02 Changes to the benefit system are being advocated as a way to lower the rate of teen...
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Monday, November 19, 2007

Getting tough on illicit drugs

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Media Release STOPPING WELFARE TO CONVICTED DRUG-USERS A DROP IN THE BUCKET November 19, 2007 Australian Prime Minister, John Howard is prom...

Go figure

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Contrast the two following statements ; 1/ In a poll of 1082 voters, people were asked whether the Government had more control over people...
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Sunday, November 18, 2007

We're ready for Wednesday!

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Saturday, November 17, 2007

This is news?

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Fancy wanting to be a cutting-edge print-media journalist only to find yourself fossicking about in classroom rubbish bins for "shock-h...
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Friday, November 16, 2007

Running the show

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My computer has developed a case of Cunliffitis - it's decided it's running the show. Ever since it arrived at my house it's bee...
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The cookie crumbles

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Yesterday I heard some spokes-thingy on the radio saying the Griffin's factory closure in Lower Hutt, after 70 years manufacturing, was ...
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Thursday, November 15, 2007

Garth George on the "gagging bill"

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Garth George has written a great column today. Here are some excerpts...actually, no,I can't pick out the best bits so here is the whole...
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007

IMPORTANT public notice

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Stop the Labour/NZ First/Greens Electoral Finance "Gagging Bill" What you can do: Protest March: Auckland this Saturday 17 Novembe...
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'Where in the world are NZ's Dole Bludgers?'

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The title is supplied by a commenter who can't distinguish between serious conjecture and 'musing' even after I spelled it out f...
Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Aussie unemployment

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NZ had 23,158 people on the unemployment benefit at September 2007. The official unemployment rate is 3.5 percent. Australia's unemplo...
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Tell us something we don't know

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Confirmation of what we all knew. ...one in ten Pacific Island children and one in twenty Maori children aged 5 to 14 [is] likely to be ext...
Monday, November 12, 2007

'Bah, humbug. There's no inclination to help the poor'

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This article from the Sydney Morning Herald was reprinted in yesterday's SST. The headline is supplied by the SST. My response; Dear Ed...
Sunday, November 11, 2007

Weird

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Can anyone get their head around this experiment conducted by a Canterbury University student? The conclusion is dogs can read people's...
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Saturday, November 10, 2007

Silliness over pronunciation

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It would have to be Waikato University putting up such a display of preciousness. They want 'Waikato' pronounced properly. Not Why ...
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Lindsay Mitchell
Lindsay Mitchell has been researching and commenting on welfare since 2001. Many of her articles have been published in mainstream media and she has appeared on radio,tv and before select committees discussing issues relating to welfare. Lindsay is also an artist who works under commission and exhibits at Wellington, New Zealand, galleries.
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